Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS five-year-old mare will go hurdling after being unbeaten in two bumpers last season . |
| 2 | In moral education , the young person needs to acquire sufficient knowledge and understanding to be able to make a mature , personal response to Jesus ' invitation in relation to judgements of moral value . |
| 3 | They may envy us our power and dependency , which , despite appearing to be contradictory qualities , are not . |
| 4 | There is also the interesting case of the experimental company which ‘ staged ’ ‘ dramatic situations ’ , such as a fierce marital row , in restaurants , while appearing to be ordinary customers . |
| 5 | The reason appearing to be that menarche is weight-triggered and in particular is turned on by er body weight reaching erm a certain proportion I think it 's about eighteen percent of weight erm erm represented by body fat triggers , triggers menarche . |
| 6 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 7 | Of the two , he was faring worse , panting , gasping , even appearing to be near collapse . |
| 8 | FOR THE second Wednesday running racing from Hong Kong will be screened by SIS in the betting shops this afternoon , with Southwell 's all-weather fixture again appearing to be cold shouldered , writes Chris Hawkins . |
| 9 | The male deceives the second female by appearing to be unpaired . |
| 10 | While Liz was nibbling pistachio nuts , surveying dominions , Shirley , hot , red and angry ( but not appearing to be angry ) was listening yet once more to her mother-in-law 's description of her digestive system and what the doctor had said about the swelling of her legs , a commentary which followed closely upon her complaints about the absence of her two older grandchildren who had ( in Shirley 's view very wisely ) buggered off to a disco at Maid Marian 's Nitespot . |
| 11 | Perception of extension is subject to relativities too , the same thing appearing to be different shapes according to our view . |
| 12 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 13 | Our Institute must find a way to defend our interests in the matter of fee income while appearing to be concerned for the public interest as well . |
| 14 | She subtly covered this up by appearing to be concerned about what dangers might face us here at Templecombe . ’ |
| 15 | Interestingly non-smoking and non-drinking were cited by many fewer respondents as contributing to being healthy . |
| 16 | That these two expressions relating to are equivalent is easily verified since it requires or The validity of this last relation is best seen by appreciating that , according to equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.2 ) , the characteristic impedances obey and Making use of equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.5 ) and writing the ratio as u , it follows from equations ( 9.3 ) and ( 9.4 ) that the transfer function of a T or Π-section of the form of ladder filter under consideration is given by In general u and hence will be complex and it is helpful at this juncture to put where γ is known as the propagation constant . |
| 17 | He exists , stressed and traumatised , in complete conflict with his biological program , literally dying to be free . |
| 18 | He exists , stressed and traumatised , in complete conflict with his biological program , literally dying to be free . |
| 19 | A human figure was somehow trapped in the plasterwork of that wall at the waist , twisting and scrabbling and thrashing to be free . |
| 20 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 21 | Right so what you 're looking for is twelve thousand pounds ? |
| 22 | ‘ What we are looking for is loving care and attention in the home . ’ |
| 23 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 24 | ‘ What lenders are looking for is comprehensive , accurate and relevant information , upfront , to build up a fuller picture of the credit applicant , before making a decision to grant credit ’ , confirmed Mr McKiernan . |
| 25 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
| 26 | What he 's looking for is certified numbers , field numbers |
| 27 | Well , if what we 're looking for is another time |
| 28 | What I think I 'm looking for is some evidence that the severity of the infrastructure problems to which you refer actually varies from one district to another . |
| 29 | Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice . |
| 30 | ‘ What we are looking for is some sign that the whales are responding . |